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Show Dr. James L Vance I lla e a sav ings bank account, if pos- J slble. but don't hoard Don't starve your soul to feed your locker, i'on't H diminish yourself or your happiness or ypur Usefulness just to increase your H oank account. The life is more than and the body than raiment. .M.-uey in Itself is worthless its only value is In what it can do. There nothing more foolish than trying tb see bow much filthy lucre you can pile Hoarding is a process that reacts disastrously on character rjnder its baneful Influences tbe juices of gen-crosit gen-crosit dry up am! one's personality contracts. The soul withers, and a man's nature beeomea small and sdr- did and hard and mean. Tin refore, don't iioald. W hat I am say ing oboUt money ap-plies ap-plies to everythllng. L'oti'i boani anjj- thing- Don't hoard your social a I'd mental traits, if vou dp, the) will wither, too. Don't hoard your religion. W hat a blunder to try 10 4)0 a miser with Hie one thing lhat was meant to make us big-hearted and generous' The very genius of religion, la to forget s. If iii tho effort to promote the happiness and welfare eu others. But you have seen people who act o! as though they were afraid there might inn be enough of 'Jod to go around, as (hough residential accom-mod. accom-mod. I ions in heaven ar limited. This is tin- w ust kind of hoarding to get a spiritual blessing and try to ket v ii to yourself. ( vou hoard, it will spoil. This was the lesson of the manna rained down in the desert tioni heaven to feed Israel on the journey to the ixni of Promise. Every morning there vv.-.s i iresh suppl.v for I be day's ' ned. Kut some long-siglited Invest-ors Invest-ors decielel to corner the market. The piopes.-d lo stock up against a lav when the heuvi nl rain might cease and there would he a manna smu lane in lug cujupi When they examined w hal they had stored up. thev found lhat the manna 'bad bred worms and stank" It was heaven's waj of saying to foolish, seU-Ish. seU-Ish. sordid human nature: "Don't Don't he a boarder ami don't he a spender. Bi a user Be a server. |